a yoga therapy approach….

workshop experiences past & present

These are descriptions of Arden’s past and current offerings, please go to schedule page for dates and what is coming up on the calendar.

All programs are offered throughout the year at Sun Studio in Florence, Ma.

Arden is available to teach these programs or customize to suit your group’s need at your studio, organization, school or retreat, regionally nationally or internationally.

descriptions

{accordion=• Bring Balance To Your Workday} Free the body and mind of tension at your desk or anywhere! Learn how you can effectively balance your energy, and flip the switch on your emotions to come into a more positive and vital way with your livelihood. You will learn how to effectively take brief renewal breaks throughout the day and understand the importance of them. You will learn gentle stretches, breathing and mindfulness practices. {/accordion}

{accordion=• Better Breathing & Vitality} In this workshop you will learn how to clear your nasal passages, understand and practice better breathing, experience it’s connection to our life force (prana) and improve the function of the muscles connected to breathing. A world of possibility for healing and growth opens up when we learn how to cultivate our life-breath.

Overcome breath holding and mild hyperventilation

Increase mental clarity and calm

Reduce your experience of pain and stress

Learn tips on moderating asthma

Awakened compassion and access to greater awareness.

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{accordion=• Freeing The Neck & Shoulders – Yoga Therapy Workshop} Come learn a gentle approach to get relief! We will create alignment, stability, understanding and openness in the upper body. This means practicing poses, understanding anatomy, breathing, discussing the affect of lifestyle and emotions and self-massage. Come if you are stiff, achy, or in pain. You may have history of disc herniation, arthritis, or recovering from other injuries.{/accordion}

{accordion=• Happy Hips & Low Back – Yoga Therapy Workshop} Come learn a gentle approach for all levels. We will create alignment/stability at the physical level, learn about hip/sacrum/low back anatomy, and how our mind/lifestyle create obstacles to recovery and more. You may have history of disc herniation, arthritis, or recovering from other injuries.{/accordion}

{accordion=• Happy Knees Is Happiness – Yoga Therapy Workshop} Bring your hiker, creeky, arthritic, bum knees and get some relief! Learn a gentle approach for all levels. We will create alignment/stability at the physical level, learn about knee anatomy, how our mind/lifestyle create obstacles to recovery and more.{/accordion}

{accordion=• Yoga & The Power of Intention} Your way of thinking has a profound affect on your life. Learning to use intention and affirmation can springboard you out of negativity, stagnation and give you back mental authority, creativity and skill to manifest the life you want. We will use Yoga, free writing, and embodiment practices to refine our intention and empower our positivity.{/accordion}

{accordion=• Vision Journey With Art & Yoga – A One Day Workshop To Create A Visual Affirmation} Co-Taught with Joanne Lucia We will start the morning with gentle Yoga practices and meditation that opens your body, mind and vision to see more fully where you are and what you want to manifest in your next step in life. The afternoon is devoted to creating a vision board that will provide you with the opportunity to empower and express your insights. The vision board is a powerful visualization tool to help activate your dreams into reality.{/accordion}

{accordion=• Chakra Awakening Workshop Series} Co-facilitated with Margaret Jasinski, M.Ed This is a personal growth program bridging the physical, subtle energetic and mental planes of experience to create deeper connection and meaning in your life. You will study the dynamics of chakras, their obstacles and practices to clarify, empower and awaken through them. Two skilled and dedicated instructors will facilitate this experiential journey of chakra energy, the mainstay of all life. {/accordion}

a yoga therapy approach….

course experiences past & present

These are descriptions of Arden’s past and current offerings, please go to schedule page for dates and what is coming up on the calendar.

All programs are offered throughout the year at Sun Studio in Florence, Ma.

Arden is available to teach these programs or customize to suit your group’s need at your studio, organization, school or retreat, regionally nationally or internationally.

descriptions

{accordion=• Yoga Therapy Clinic}
Based on Structural Yoga Therapy, we will practice easy movements and classical postures therapeutically applied, yogic breathing and relaxation. This course may also be taken as a personal growth program to create deeper connection in your life. All practices will be adapted to each student and BE gentle enough to allow for maximum awareness and healing.

Relieves postural imbalances & joint pain

Reduces stress

Helps with recovery after injury

Strengthens immune system

Restores well-being & centeredness

Enhances awareness of subtle body {/accordion}

{accordion=• Gentle Yoga Basics}
Whether you are a novice, out of practice, or you enjoy an easier class this course may be the answer to feeling revitalized and freer in you body. This course is an introduction to the basic understanding and practice of Classical Yoga. Thorough and safe instruction is given to every aspect including the fundamental postures (asana), breathing (pranayama), life force (prana), positive thinking, philosophy, relaxation, stress reduction and personalizing your practice. All under the guidance of a yoga therapist.{/accordion}

{accordion=• Wholistic Yoga}
Experience is required.
This course will cover the Eight Fold Yoga practices, from physical to subtle, to clear the body-mind and access the deepest aspects of ourselves (panchamaya system). This course is deeply healing and restorative.
Each class includes, but is not limited to:

Opening prayers and gratitude practice to open the heart.

Short Talk on an aspect of the 8-Fold Path to Yoga

Yoga Pose and therapeutics Pranayama – Breathing Practice

Pratyahara – a practice to gain mastery over external influences

Contemplation Practice

Meditation

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{accordion=• Yoga For Upliftment}
We will incorporate sounding, song and mantra into the physical practice to release blockages, lift our spirits and for alignment. This will develop two important pranas (subtle energies) in our being: Apana Prana (energy-freeing, de-toxing and grounding) and Udana. Udana Prana is the main positive energy unfoldment in life through which we can develop our different bodies and evolve in consciousness. It governs growth, transformation, voice, will, creativity and enthusiasm. It leads awareness to the subtle plane, helping you to attune to your inner guidance. Sounding is NOT about performance, it’s about vibration and learning how to move the subtle energy within you.{/accordion}

{accordion=• Better Breathing Yoga}
Breathing is the most important activity we do. It affects our posture, mood, energy and is so vital, we can’t live but a few minutes without it. We take it for granted, and when done poorly, it can be a source of disease.Poor breathing habits are linked to high blood pressure, muscle tension, headaches, cold hand/feet, digestive problems, anxiety, chest pain, IBS, fatigue, insomnia, nightmares and depression. This is a unique course that delves not only into the chemistry of breathing, but also the subtle energy – prana – effects. You will learn the art and science behind better breathing (pranayama) through yoga postures, breathing techniques and shared theory and research. Connect more intimately to your life breath – Prana!

Adya Prana: reception/propulsion -INHALATION

Samana Prana: assimilation/discernation -PAUSE after INHALE

Udana Prana: growth /upliftment -EXHALATION

Apana Prana: elimination/grounding -LAST PART OF EXHALE

Vyana Prana: circulation/expansion -PAUSE after EXHALE

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{accordion=• Yoga And The Power Of Intention}
Your way of thinking has a profound affect on your life. Learning to use intention and affirmation can springboard you out of negativity, stagnation and give you back mental authority, creativity and skill to manifest the life you want. We will use Yoga, free writing, and embodiment practices to refine our intention and empower our positivity.
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{accordion=• Chakra Yoga}
This is a personal growth course bridging the physical, subtle energetic and mental planes of experience to create more vitality and connection in your life. Chakras are psycho-spiritual energy centers located along the spine. Each class will address one chakra through Yoga poses, breathing, sounding and guided meditation.
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{accordion=• Detox – Renew Yoga}
Shed the winter heaviness and bounce back into spring! Spring is the time for internal cleansing to remove stagnation, frustration and toxins in body-mind. We will practice gentle twists, hips openers and exercises to flush and tone the liver. You will learn the self-massage points on the gall bladder and liver meridians.
You will learn how to work with your emotions constructively and let go of negativity.
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{accordion=• Psoas Yoga Therapy}
Explore this core pelvic muscle, understand it’s connection to body, mind and nervous system, and learn practices to bring vitality back. Pronounced “so-az”, this muscle can be of primary concern if you have back, neck, or hip pain, knee pain, stress, anxiety,pelvic imbalance, sacra-iliac dysfunction, scoliosis or poor posture. Ideal for women in pre-conception phase or menopause. We need this muscle for standing, moving, good posture, singing and performance. This program can help release the psoas from embedded impressions from fight/flight/freeze stress. CEUs may be available.
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{accordion=• In-Depth Yoga Theory & Practice}
This course is a deeper study of the Yoga practice. It includes learning how your life force (prana) can be cultivated through the Yoga practices, what the five bodies of the human system are and how the eight fold path of Yoga assists in your development/evolution. This class will help the student inquire into their nature and habits. Handouts will be included and there will be required reading. Note-taking is encouraged.
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a yoga therapy approach…..

pregnancy yoga therapy experiences

descriptions

{accordion=Pregnancy Yoga Therapy & Labor Readiness} For many women, the birthing time is one of the most transformational periods of their lives. Come tune in to the innate wisdom of your body and soul, and connect with other expectant mamas. With a yoga therapy approach, you will reduce physical discomforts associated with pregnancy, build strength and flexibility, learn breathing techniques to relax the mind and tools helpful for labor and birth. No yoga experience necessary – all abilities welcome.

You are welcome to join the class in any stage of pregnancy and with any fitness level. Partners are welcome at half price. If you have a history of miscarriage, or have had trouble conceiving, please consult with your caregiver and Corinne or Arden to determine the best time to join. {/accordion}

{accordion=Parent & Baby Yoga} The first few months of your baby’s life is a precious time. This class offers an opportunity for either parent and baby to explore the many dimensions of this time in order to bond, nourish and connect with other parents. All practices promote postpartum healing and wellness in an atmosphere that encourages sharing challenges and joyful discoveries. No yoga experience necessary – all abilities welcome.

Often, babies are gently and safely incorporated into the class through partner poses and practices that comfort and support their optimal development. Nursing, walking, bouncing, changing diapers and soothing fussy babies are perfectly normal in this space.

Either parent is welcome to join this class as early as four weeks after a vaginal birth or six weeks after a cesarean birth, and continue until your baby is an advanced crawler. Please bring a yoga mat, baby blanket, toys, baby-wearing wrap or whatever else that you feel is necessary. {/accordion}